From Hackers To Crackers

From Hackers To Crackers

"Hackers Taking a Byte Out of Computer Crime" Wade Roush, in Technology Review (Apr. 1995), Bldg. W59, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 02139.
During the 1970s and '80s, rebellious young "hackers" found it thrilling to break into cor- porate and academic computer systems and commit electronic mischief. They formed

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clubs with names such as "Masters of Decep- tion" and "Legion of Doom" and reveled in their superiority over the slow-footed "Estab- l...

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